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Name: Kimbowa Richard
Organisation: Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development
Country: Uganda
Phone: +256 414 269461
E-Mail: ugandacoalition@infocom.co.ug
Website: www.ugandacoalition.or.ug
Objective of the project: To initiate and scale up adaptation options for the increasing number of marginalized communities within the Lake Victoria basin in Uganda, arising from the unpredictable negative effects of climate change on their livelihoods
Main project activities planned: - School debates on climate change adaptation and conservation challenges and options for students with incentives for best performers
- Preparation of customized awareness materials
- Drama competition (poem) amongst the 5 schools on how communities can adapt to the changes
- Start a demonstrative centres to tap existing and potential technologies to assist the marignisalised communities to cope with climate change (these include provision of clean water and sanitation in both drought and extremely wet seasons; appropriate rain water harvesting options; housing options; tree arboretum and / or community nursery bed to support on-going tree planting drive; drought and flood resistant crop varieties, farming tips, flood control options in hilly and mountainous areas etc)
- Radio spots for awareness raising and advocacy to get local leaders (local governments) to provide more investment in climate adaption
- Community Exchange visits within the Lake Victoria region (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) to learn and share "coping strategies in practice"
Expected results: - Communities have been provided with a range of technologies to chose from and have begun to use them, resulting in reduced vulnerability to cholera and other water borne diseases, food shortages, droughts and floods
- 2 demonstration centers to show case potential choices for communities to adapt to climate change within the LVB
- Local leaders (local governments) have provided more attention to addressing climate change effects on marginalized communities (budget allocations, institutional and human resource support)
- Schools have formed groups that take up community / field activities to sustain learning for children on the effects of climate change and ways to cope
- An 'Adaptive community' within the Lake Victoria Basin established that continues to 'experiment, test and share' more technologies and practices to cope with the unpredictable effects of climate change on agriculture, water supply, housing and community health
Partnership requested: UCSD is seeking support in terms of funds, support to set up the demonstration centers and / or tried and tested technology transfer in agriculture, water and sanitation, housing, flood control, drought resistance over a period of 3 years
Estimated project budget: Project estimated at USD 250,000 over a period of 3 years i.e about USD 83,000 per year
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Name: Dr Ritesh arya
Organisation: Arya Drillers
Country: India
Phone: 0091-9316722291
E-Mail: aryadrillers@gmail.com
Website: www.enjoyglobalwarmingblogspot.com, www.aryadrillers.com
Objective of the project: Prepare conceptual climate model to explain cyclicity of global warming and cooling events based on geological, geomorphological and paleoglacial evidences and show global warming is natural phenomenon
Main project activities planned: Documentation of field evidences of paleoclimatic signatures based on extensive research carried in the Himalayan region
Study and document paleo glacial retreat of Himalayan glaciers specailly Indus glacier
Study paleoglacial lake outbursts as an indicator to study climate cycle
Expected results: ones the climatic cycles are established the myths associated with global warming phenomenon will be answered and global warming natural phenomenon will be established.
Suggest ways and means to show how we can enjoy global warming and live happily with global warming by building habitats in geologically stable locations
Partnership requested: Good institute and film makers with interest in working in extreme climatic conditions in Himalayas
Estimated project budget: 100000US$
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Name: Wietse W. Hermanns
Organisation: Climate Valley Initiative; Hermanns Consultancy
Country: the Netherlands
Phone: +31 263793872
E-Mail: info@hermannsconsultancy.com
Website: www.hermannsconsultancy.com; www.climatevalley.org (to be launched late 2010)
Objective of the project: Climate Valley will create a network of regional and local initiatives on climate change, in order to set joint projects and stimulate local initiatives, to respond to climate change and related sustainable development issues.
Compared to other initiatives, the Climate Valley Initiative does not cover large-scale projects for Carbon-reduction or address governmental agencies, experts or local initiatives only, but would like to fill the gap between these mostly seperately operating networks.
Similar to Silicon Valley©, and "Valley" initiatives in the Netherlands such as Food, Health and Energy Valley, each "Climate Valley" will consist on governmental agencies, NGOs and (individual) local initiatives, knowledge centres and inidividual experts, and business representatives, working closely together to create an innovative environment where new ideas and projects are being developed. The network organisation of Climate Valleys acts as an umbrella, stimulating exchange of knowledge and ideas, and supporting (joint) projects.
The name "Climate Valley" is also chosen, because a valley is a typical illustration of many climate change related features: from micro-climatic differences between sun-facing and shaded slopes that are sharpened by a rising temperature, to the impact of glaciers melting at the head of the valley and more frequent flooding downstream.
Main project activities planned: 1. Building a portal website, with a database of local initiatives, knowledge, experts and (other) partner organisations
2. Establishing both local or regional networks, the "Climate Valleys", and European or global partnerships/networks that consist of more than one Climate Valley. This includes the organisation of (local) meetings and delivering expert support to these initiatives.
3. Developing and stimulating joint, regional and local projects, which are to funded by governmental and/or private funds. Also the application for funding is to be supported by the Clmate Valley Initiative.
Expected results: 1. A bottom-up network, portal and platform of "Climate Valley initiatives"
2. A knowledge, experts, organisations and project database
3. Implementation of projects, from local to global.
Partnership requested: 1. Local and regional governments and NGOs who want to set up "Climate Valleys"
2. Enterprises, experts, local initiatives and private persons who want to contribute to the "Climate Valley Initiative"
3. Other similar networks, who wish to cooperate
4. Funds, Charities or others, who wish to support the organisation financially, to cover the (initial) operational costs.
Estimated project budget: € 100,000; to cover operational costs to set up websites/portal, legal costs to set up an umbrella organisation (Foundation or similar), build projects and organise (local) meetings, during an initial phase of 1-2 years. After this time, the Climate Valley Initiative should run independently on project contributions and (private) funding contribute by the partners.
The projects to be set up can range from several 100 Euro for a small local project, to more than 5 Million Euro for a multi-partner EU or Global project that covers up to 20 local/regional initiatives.
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Name: Joannah B. Ramores
Organisation: Typhoon Preparedness Center
Country: Philippines
Phone: 63 54 472 9552
E-Mail: joannah_ramores@yahoo.com
Website: www.ncftpc.ph
Objective of the project: Private and Local government Partnership for Climate Change and Early Warning in Bicol Region.
• Bicol Region, Philippines is one of the 17 regions of the Philippine island. It is located 450 km south of Manila, composed of 6 provinces and peopled by 4.5 million people. The region is also home to 46,841 Agta, an indigenous people consisting of 8,968 households with 23, 579 males and 23,262 females scattered in 183 tribal communities across the Bicol region.
• Amidst the beauty and the diversity of its people and culture, Bicol is geographically located at the typhoon belt facing Pacific Ocean, where 3-5 typhoons frequent a year. The region is considered as high risk in terms of natural disaster with 56 flood prone areas, 3 active volcanoes that post risk to volcanic eruption and mud flows. The region being one of the top 3 poorest region has population living below poverty line endangering almost 65% of its populace. Thus natural hazards and vulnerability to natural disaster has become an impediment to development.
• Responding to the needs of the region bring to us the relationship between knowledge and action. Actions and programs must be based to sound scientific knowledge. The need to raise awareness, build the capacity of the populace, deliver information to those at risk is a responsibility not just confine to the government and corresponding agencies but also to educational institutions such as the Naga College Foundation.
• The Naga College Foundation is actively pursuing programs related to typhoon preparedness and climate change. Through its Typhoon Preparedness Center, the school takes the lead in providing early warning ( Nowcasting Services) during the advent of typhoon to limited areas in the Camarines Sur province.
* A Strong private and local government partnership that is designed to cater to climate change and disaster risk reduction can serve a major contribution to the development of the region. Bringing information to the most vulnerable population and strengthening CC/DRR research are areas that are unexplored if not provided with very limited funding and resources.
The overall arching goal of the project is zero casualties during disaster; gradual reduction of economic losses and resilience among affected communities against the impact of typhoon / water-induced hazards by building capacities in disaster preparedness and early warning in Bicol Region:
Specifically aims to build capabilities in the following areas:
1 Timely and precise detection and monitoring of hazards and risks and the establishment of reliable channel of communication at all levels
2 Preparation, response and cooperation among concerned agencies and stakeholders disaster preparedness and risk reduction
3 Appropriate/ effective local response through community-based disaster management
5.4 Technical capacity in scientific knowledge of risk
Main project activities planned: 1. Regional Consultative and partnership Building Conference on Early Warning and Climate change
2. Distribution and establishment of Early Warning Tracking charts in selected and strategic local government units.
3. Conduct of Scientific conference aims to laymanized technical information on Climate Change, Early Warning.
4. Upgrade local data base of municipalities through collaborative partnership of academe and local government units
5. Upgrade early warning dissemination of the Typhoon Preparedness Center
Expected results: INNOVATIONS
The project introduces new concepts and tools in Climate Change and DRRM planning at the regional level:
A. Tracking chart – customized tracking chart that consist of the Philippine Map, regional Map, serves as a data base of hazard and vulnerability situation of region and its provinces. It also consists of warning information and a tropical cyclone tracking chart that can be used each region in warning and dissemination.
B. Customized Warning format- effects of hazards for each provinces or region may vary. A customized warning format shall be developed; LGU will have capability in translating effects of hazards to their respective localities. This information shall be disseminated through the communication channels and eventually to the public.
C. Regular Scientific Conference - this bridge the gap between scientific community and the local government agencies to collaborate and integrate scientific knowledge to action plans of our local governments.
EXPECTED RESULT:
1. Private/Academe/Local Government units partnership established.
2. Tracking charts for Early Warning and Climate change Mitigation established and functional
3. Increased capacity of Local Government units in EWS
4. Utilization of scientific data to local plans and reflected in disaster/CC plans and policies
5. Improved timely delivery of early Warning reflected
Partnership requested: The Proposal request Funding for project funding
Estimated project budget: 250,000usd for period of 2 years
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Name: Uchenna Rowland Onyeizu
Organisation: EnvironHealth Systems Limited
Country: Nigeria
Phone: +234-8065189734
E-Mail: uchennaonyeizu@yahoo.com
Website:
Objective of the project:
Main project activities planned: I am interested in carrying out a PHD study on climate change and the
developing countries' adaptation challenges in managing sustainable
water resources management. or in managing sustainable healthcare management
Expected results: to be discussed
Partnership requested: A scholarship study and an interested supervisor.
Estimated project budget:
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Name: Evans Mutuma
Organisation: Kenya Agricultural Research Institute(KARI)
Country: Kenya
Phone:
E-Mail: mathjaphet@yahoo.com
Website:
Objective of the project: Seeking for partnership and grant for a project on cost effective and innovative greywater treatment methods
Main project activities planned: The project aims to utilise cost effective and innovative greywater treatment methods and reuse in restricted agriculture at household and community level in lake victorial basin in kenya.
Expected results: The projects expected output is increased food production and environmantal protection due to reduced polution of the soil and water both surface and ground water.
Partnership requested: I am a researcher at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute(KARI). I am seeking for partnership and a grant to undertake a project whose aim is to conserve fresh water abstraction in the face of climate change.
Estimated project budget:
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Name: Hugh Doulton
Organisation: Bristol Conservation & Science Foundation
Country: Anjouan, Union of the Comoros, Western Indian Ocean
Phone: +269 334 2559
E-Mail: hdoulton@bcsf.org.uk
Website: www.bcsf.org.uk
Objective of the project: JOB ADVERTISEMENT
Head of Agricultural Development, Comoro Islands Project
Main project activities planned: Main Place of Work: Anjouan, Union of the Comoros, Western Indian Ocean
Application deadline: 5 October 2010
Start Date: From November 2010
Contract: 12 month fixed-term, renewable, full-time position, at €16,800 per annum, plus insurance and an annual return flight to country of origin.
Contact: Hugh Doulton (Comoros Project Coordinator), hdoulton@bcsf.org.uk
Submission: 2 page CV and covering letter
Overview: Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation is looking to recruit a dynamic, self-motivated person to take responsibility for the agricultural components of its project in the Comoro Islands. The main duties are (i) developing and updating agricultural project intervention strategies, (ii) training the local team to implement and manage the agricultural activities, (iii) managing the team of agricultural technicians, and (iv) overseeing technical agricultural support to project beneficiaries in the villages. The successful candidate will also contribute to the creation of a local NGO that will support sustainable development practices in the Comoro Islands in the long-term.
The successful candidate will have at least a Masters level (BAC+4 equivalent) qualification in agronomy or agriculture, concentrating on the developing world context, with at least one year’s experience of fieldwork in the tropics, ideally including sub-Saharan Africa. Fluent spoken and written French is required, as well as, ideally, fluency in English. The Head of Agricultural Development will need to be able to work independently in challenging field conditions, and integrate with a multicultural team. The position is based full time in the Comoros.
Project background: The Comoro Islands in the Western Indian Ocean suffered from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world during the 1990s, causing acute problems for the human population through loss of soil fertility and water resources, and putting at risk the endemic terrestrial biodiversity. The Comoro Islands Participatory Conservation Programme is led by Bristol Conservation & Science Foundation in partnership with Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and works with consultants from the University of East Anglia’s Department of International Development and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The project is supporting rural communities on the island of Anjouan to implement sustainable landscape management around the remaining areas of forest in order to improve the livelihoods of the rural population, improve sustainability of resource use, and preserve the forest ecosystems and their biodiversity.
The interventions of the project are based on:
Participatory analysis of agricultural and environmental problems;
Agreement on and implementation of appropriate innovations and solutions by the villagers with the support of the project (such as agricultural intensification on an agro-ecological model, fertility restoration, revenue diversification, communal natural resource management);
A long-term engagement through the creation of an independent local NGO;
Collecting data on the state of forest and biodiversity through ecological monitoring and research, to evaluate the environmental impact of project interventions and identify priority zones for protection.
The project has been working in the field since January 2008, in close collaboration with the Government of the Union of the Comoros and the administration of the island of Anjouan, the University of the Comoros, the National Centre for Scientific Research, the United Nations Development Programme, and various local NGOs. Financing until the end of 2012 comes from the British Government (through the Darwin Initiative), the French Development Agency, and the Global Environment Facility.
Main Duties:
Managed directly by the Comoros Project Coordinator, and benefitting in particular from the support of the project’s Agricultural Consultant (currently in the process of recruitment under French Development Agency funding), as well as the Development Consultant (University of East Anglia) and the Landscape Management Consultant (IUCN), the Head of Agricultural Development will be responsible for:
Designing and updating agricultural and agroforestry intervention strategies that aim to improve and adapt current agricultural practices, as well as participating in the design and updating of intervention strategies for livestock farming and collective natural resource management.
Organising technical agricultural support for the project beneficiaries in the villages.
Training and managing the team of three agricultural technicians.
Training the facilitator team in analysis of agricultural problems and the management and monitoring of innovations and solutions implemented.
Organising additional technical support where appropriate (for example, farmer-farmer exchange visits, support and management of visiting students, management of agricultural support missions).
Producing written reports on the above activities.
The successful candidate will also be expected to participate in the following areas:
Project communications within their domains of competence at both the local and international levels.
The management and administration of the overall project.
Profile:
Essential:
At least a Masters (BAC + 4 equivalent) degree in agronomy/agriculture concentrating on the developing world context
A minimum of one year’s experience of fieldwork in the tropics
High degree of initiative and self-motivation
Fluent spoken and written French
Good ICT skills, current driving licence
Motivated to spend at least half their time working in the field
Good degree of fitness for challenging terrain under tropical conditions
Excellent organisational and time management skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to work in a flexible manner
Ability to work as part of a dynamic and multicultural team
Preferred:
Several years field experience, ideally including sub-Saharan Africa
Experience of applying participatory approaches to development
Fluent spoken and written English
Ability to drive a motorbike
Working knowledge of GIS, GPS, and Microsoft Access
Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation is an operating unit of the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society Ltd. The Society is committed to being an equal opportunities employer, and is Investor in People accredited.
Expected results:
Partnership requested:
Estimated project budget:
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